Reading Them Quotes
53 quotes by 47 authors
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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
— Barack Obama
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
— Ramakrishna
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who…
— Salman Rushdie
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There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very…
— Carrie Underwood
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser…
— Francis Spufford
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A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying…
— Daniel Handler
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There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the…
— Lewis Buzbee
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Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other…
— Ray Bradbury
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For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these…
— Terry Pratchett
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or…
— Alan Bennett
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My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were…
— Terry Pratchett
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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
— Louisa May Alcott
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And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of…
— Cassandra Clare
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Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with…
— Cassandra Clare
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Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable…
— David Mitchell
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Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do…
— Laurie Colwin
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